Idiopathic occipital and absence epilepsies appearing in the same children

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-28

  Caraballo, Roberto H ^a,d   Sologuestua, Ariel ^a   Grañana, Nora ^b   Adi, Javier N ^c   Cersósimo, Ricardo O ^a   Mazza, Edgardo ^a   Foster, Owen ^b   Fejerman, Natalio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Nacional Professor Dr Alejandro Posadas Servicio de Neurologia   (Argentina)

^c Hospital de Pediatría Humberto Notti   (Argentina)

^d NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GASTAUT TYPE IDIOPATHIC OCCIPITAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC OCCIPITAL EPILEPSY; MALE; MIGRAINE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCULOCEPHALIC DEVIATION; PANAYIOTOPOULOS TYPE IDIOPATHIC OCCIPITAL EPILEPSY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSATION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPIKE WAVE; VISION; VOMITING; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0345869744     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(03)00409-0     Document Type: Article

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